Category: Spirituality
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Bethlehem University Student Deported to Gaza
Deal W. Hudson November 2, 2009 Berlanty (Betty) Azzam was two months away from receiving her business degree at Bethlehem University. Anticipating life beyond college, she made the two-hour trip to Ramallah for a job interview, but on the way back she was asked for her papers at the “container” checkpoint. Azzam was detained by the…
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How the Stupak-Pitts Amendment May Change Our Politics
Deal W. Hudson November 12, 2009 Last Friday night, when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi decided to allow a vote on the Stupak-Pitts Amendment, she may have unwittingly altered the direction of the Obama presidency and the Democratic Party. For the first time in a long time, the pro-life issue is setting the agenda for the…
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How My First Catholic Mentors Taught Me Spirituality
Deal W. Hudson June 27, 2010 When I arrived at Emory University for my doctoral studies in 1974, I had just finished three years at Princeton Theological Seminary as an aspiring Southern Baptist minister. Despite being a Southern Baptist from Texas, and having pursued Reformation studies – Calvin, Luther, and the Anabaptists – at Princeton,…
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The Kicanas Problem
Deal W. Hudson November 15, 2010 When the Catholic bishops meet in Baltimore this week, they will elect the next president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). Usually, the chatter among Catholic punditry about who will be elected is minimal, given the longstanding tradition of elevating the vice president to the president’s…
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Spiritual Renewal Through Beauty
Deal W. Hudson December 7, 2014 Catholics need to be more welcoming to each other and to parish visitors. It’s not the first time I have made that observation, and it’s not the first time much of the response has been negative. Why? I’m accused of forcing evangelical habits on a Catholic parish, of endorsing…
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Seeking a New Visual Literacy
Deal W. Hudson December 13, 2014 The first commercial television network, the DuMont Television Network, began to broadcast in 1946, but programming was limited to viewers between New York and Washington, DC. Over the next two years, NBC, ABC, and CBS began regional broadcasting. It wasn’t until 1951 that national broadcasting emerged with all four…
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St. Thomas Aquinas Came to My Ambulance
Deal W. Hudson January 28, 2015 The Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas I would guess that most Catholics look at the sanctity of St. Thomas Aquinas as primarily an intellectual charism, given that he was the greatest Christian intellectual of the Middle Ages, a period of over 800 years. I had viewed St. Thomas in…
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The Sacrifice, a Poem by George Herbert (1633)
Deal W. Hudson April 3, 2015 From The Temple (1633), by George Herbert The Sacrifice OH all ye, who passe by, whose eyes and minde To worldly things are sharp, but to me blinde; To me, who took eyes that I might you finde: Was ever grief like mine? The Princes of my people make a head…
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The Exorcist Author Learns Death is a Lie
Deal W. Hudson April 25, 2015 A Book Review: William Peter Blatty, Finding Peter: A True Story of the Hand of Providence and Evidence of Life after Death Regnery Publishing, March 30, 2015 256 pages, $27.99 Honesty is rare, and when it’s found in a book such as this the effect is quite arresting and compelling.…
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The Search for True Happiness, Revisited
Deal W. Hudson May 5, 2015 Twenty years ago I published a book entitled, Happiness and the Limits of Satisfaction. It was a product of my academic years, making the book somewhat formidable to the average reader. However, a few good friends got through it, liked it, one of whom, the late Leo Linbeck, Jr., sent…
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